Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Also, we got some new trailers for Gen V, The Witcher: Blood Origin, and the upcoming The Last of Us series. Continue reading…
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Read MoreCredit: Gilles San Martin/CC BY-SA 2.0 Myotis daubentonii. (Credit: Gilles San Martin/CC BY-SA 2.0)Bats and death metal singers don’t just share a dark and edgy vibe—they also share vocalization techniques. According to a new study, bats engage their “voice boxes” much like death metal artists do to create growl-like sounds. Bats are perhaps the most
Read MoreBen Thompson / Stratechery: A look at the implications of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has experienced an explosion of interest and led to questions about AI’s impending impact on society — It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …
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Read MoreApple headset render via Antonio DeRosa (Photo: Apple headset render via Antonio DeRosa)Apple seems to be getting close to the launch of its much-hyped AR/VR headset, as it’s reportedly settled on a name for the operating system. Noted Apple soothsayer Mark Gurman is reporting it’s going to be xrOS. This is shorthand for “extended reality,”
Read MoreFoxconn, Apple’s iPhone assembler, told Nothing that it didn’t want to build its phones after past failures.
Read MoreParikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: USDC stablecoin developer Circle ends its planned SPAC merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., announced in July 2021, by mutual agreement — The firm had announced plans to go public in July of 2021. — Circle, the company behind stablecoin USDC, has terminated its agreement …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Seeking to emulate BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, State Street, Pimco, Amundi, and others are creating and commercializing their own digital investment platforms — Companies including State Street and Pimco compete to capture slice of outsourced IT services
Read MoreImage: Amazon The first trailer for The Boys spinoff show Gen V shows us that superpowered college students are just as flippantly violent as the grown-up supes from the original series. The show takes us to Vought International’s Godolkin University — a college that specializes in educating the next generation of superhumans — where it
Read MoreNBC News: Secret Service report: China-linked APT41 hackers stole $20M+ in US COVID-19 relief benefits, the first example of pandemic fraud by state-affiliated hackers — Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans …
Read MoreGene therapies promise long-term relief from intractable diseases—if insurers agree to pony up.
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Read MoreIf you want to 3D print arbitrary shapes with an FDM printer, you often find you need supports. If you have dissolvable support material, that might not be a big issue, but if you use the same material for support as you print in, removing it can be difficult, depending on the location of the
Read MoreThe Mars of the past was very different from the one NASA’s Viking 1 lander found when it made history as the first lander on the Red Planet in 1976. A new study suggests that Viking 1 landed at the margins of a megatsunami deposit from the planet’s earlier, wetter phase. Researchers say they have
Read MoreStephanie Murray / The Block: SBF says John Ray III is not working with him or responding to messages, claims Ray made false statements, and dodges questions on Alameda and loaning funds — – Sam Bankman-Fried is taking aim at John Ray, the new CEO of FTX, claiming he’s been iced out after the firm
Read MoreCredit: Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Nothing says it’s in talks with US mobile networks for a future smartphone. Company founder Carl Pei also noted that the Phone 2 isn’t launching anytime soon. The Nothing Phone 1 was the startup company’s first smartphone, and it turned out to be one of the better mid-range handsets
Read MorePhoto by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT. The site’s mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling would be made some time in the future after consultation with
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